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...down to the bay". The Vagabond muses on basking with delight in his chair, waiting for the deceptive cadences at the end of Professor Langer's sentences. It must have been fun taking Constantinople, even if everyone in those days had to carry musty spices of the East to quell his nausea. It is such little remarks that the Vagabond remembers from all these many, many lectures; surely such a one was worth the three flights up to Sever 30 at 9 of a cold Tuesday morning. But the enchantment dies as the bell rings. History 19 folds its tents...
...races about the factory pulling all the switches in sight. Next he goes outdoors and scares a lady by waving wrenches at her because the buttons on her dress remind him of the nuts on his assembly belt. Chaplin goes to jail where he enjoys life until, by helping quell a prison mutiny, he wins a pardon. Faced once more with the task of confronting a world where even less eccentric and more ambitious individuals are having a hard time, he experiences a series of disasters...
While it would still be necessary for the Yard Police to quell any disturbance, their activity should cease immediately when it becomes apparent that students should be consulted about the causes of the trouble or the persons involved in it. The officers would merely take the bursars' cards or some other form of identification from every man who might be involved. These names would then be turned in to this disciplinary officer, not to the Superintendent of Caretakers, who would summons all the men and talk with them informally without keeping a record of the visit unless it was apparent...
...need have any misgivings as to the attitude of the Government toward lawless individuals or subversive movements. They shall be dealt with firmly. Sufficient armed forces will be maintained at all times to quell and suppress any rebellion against authority of this Government or of the sovereignty of the United States. There can be no progress except under the auspices of peace...
Sure enough, embattled farmers rose last week, capturing Hsiangho 40 mi. from Peiping, and besieging Yungching west of Tientsin. When General Shang dispatched two companies of Chinese soldiers to quell the rebels, Japanese officials flew into a rage, thundered that the rebels were in the official "demilitarized zone" set up after the Tangku Truce (TIME, June 5, 1933), and therefore could not be touched by Chinese soldiers who must not enter it. Down sat the two companies of Chinese on the opposite bank of a canal from the demilitarized zone, within sound of the shooting rebels & ronin...